Safe Place silhouettes a stark reminder of domestic violence

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Oct 5, 2017 at 10:17 AMOct 5, 2017 at 11:14 AM

Though October signifies colder weather and Halloween costumes for most, A Safe Place Nantucket participates in a creative campaign each year as a reminder it is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Elizabeth Clemente I&M Staff Writer EClementeIM

Though October signifies colder weather and Halloween costumes for most, A Safe Place Nantucket participates in a creative campaign each year as a reminder it is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month. On Monday morning the organization put up the first of two displays, “The Silent Witness Exhibit,” to commemorate island domestic violence victims.

“It’s a silhouette of a person and on the silhouette it will have a story of an individual that was murdered from domestic violence,” said Bryan Frascati, children’s clinician at A Safe Place, the island’s domestic violence and sexual assault prevention and advocacy organization. “These are men, women and children who have died at the hands of domestic violence (this year).”

The island project, which will be on display through Oct. 13, is an offshoot of The Silent Witness Initiative, an international organization based out of Minnesota that encourages private communities to launch their own exhibits.

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